On Thursday 16th June 2022 we welcomed food industry leaders to our Net Zero Food Manufacturing Event . We blended success stories from early adopters, with advice from automation experts and even made a batch of net zero soup.
You can watch videos from the day below.
What: Net Zero Food Manufacturing Event - (free to attend) - attend in person or online.
Where: National Centre for Food Manufacturing, University of Lincoln, Holbeach, UK & online webinar.
When: 09:00-16:00 - Thursday 16th June 2022
End-user stories
Learn from food manufacturing colleagues as they share their automation journey covering the challenges, the benefits and adoption advice.
Executive Chair of Wealmoor, a leading sub-tropical fruit and vegetable grower, packer and distributor, will share how the business has implemented a number of sustainability programmes including switching to renewables and investing in automation to improve efficiency.
CEO of Go-Tan, a Netherlands based sauce manufacturer, will share their learnings from adopting APRIL batch cooking (chef) and APRIL Weighing (sous chef).
Head of IT at Berry Gardens, the UK's largest soft fruit business, will share how they have integrated new technologies to improve sustainability in their state of the art new packhouse.
Technology demos
Get to grips with the latest technology shaping the automation of food manufacturing including:
Full-scale demonstration of APRIL making soup at a rate of 2.4T/HR including fully automated powder weigh up and liquid dosing with KUKA robotics.
How Ignition can help you easily and quickly connect your factory to see your energy and production savings in real-time from any device.
Examples of the latest developments in quality inspection using Cognex’s powerful vision and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Discover digital skills
Learn about the digital skills and tools you need to “level-up” your team and realise the full benefits of digitalisation.
How to access the digital skills your organisation needs to thrive.
Agenda
Every kW matters; energy is and will continue to dramatically affect your business. Learn how APRIL and digital technologies can shake up your manufacturing processes to move towards a low carbon, profitable future.
09:30 Welcome – Setting the scene
Prof. Val Braybrooks MBE - University of Lincoln, Jake Norman – OAL
Grant Barr – EON, Ling Sin Fai Lam – Shore Capital
10:00 Carbon footprint of chilled food manufacturing
Dr Wayne Martindale – University of Lincoln
10:30 Case Study – Go Tan – APRIL sauce manufacture
Bing Go – Go Tan
11:10 Coffee break
11:30 Net-zero food manufacture
Ian Beauchamp - OAL
11:50 Case Study – Agrana – APRIL robotic powder weighing
Benoit Wissoq – Agrana
12:20 – Lunch & networking
Chilled soup manufacture cooking & cooling demo
13:00 Case Study – Building sustainability into a new packhouse
James Judge - Berry Gardens
13:30 Technology Session – Digitalisation
Ethan Stone – OAL, Matthew Raybourn – Inductive Automation
1400 Case Study – Improving sustainability with automation
Matthew Beacham – Wealmoor
14:30 Technology Session – Vision
Harry Norman – OAL, Thomas Flude – Cognex
15:00 Food Sector Support, Funding & Digitalisation
Prof. Mark Swainson - University of Lincoln, Jenni McDonnell MBE - Knowledge Transfer Network
15:30 Q&A + Debate
16:00 Finish
FAQ
Who should attend? The event is designed for senior leaders working in food manufacturing who want to learn how automation and robotics technologies can make their businesses more sustainable.
Will there be lunch? Yes, we’ll be providing lunch and you’ll also have the chance to taste the APRIL difference with samples of our “net-zero” soup. Dietary requirements.
What’s the best way of getting there? In the spirit of the day, we’re going to make it easy to take public transport by offering complimentary lifts from Peterborough train station. Alternatively, you can travel directly to Holbeach by car and there is plenty of parking at the centre.
Please note that photographs and footage will be taken throughout the event. These will be used for marketing. Please contact us if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.